I have just purchased a photo from iStockphoto and I want to prepare it for use as a background image for a web application. (The iStock photo id is 41509966, it's an overhead photo of people working ...

Has anyone ever noticed that if you open a image in mspaint (.jpg, .jpeg) and then just save it, the image size is reduced by many folds. I use this method to reduce the file size.
However, I am not ...

Background: I've got a lot of old photos taken by my first digital camera Epson PhotoPC 600 from 1997 and I'd love to make them look as good as possible. I do know they'll never look like those from ...

I am looking into CCD cameras that can be attached to a microscope. I understand that there is a premium to pay for anything labeled "industrial", but I don't really understand why they cost so much, ...

Similar: How do I choose which resolution (megapixel) and compression (normal, fine, superfine) to shoot in?
The Pentax K-5 has a JPEG quality setting called "Premium", denoted by four stars, which ...

I am a little confused as to why my Finepix S2950 takes photos like it does. I seem to be able to take great Macro Shots, but not landscapes. I have noticed that if I zoom into a picture enough I can ...

I've had quite a few photography classes, read many photography books, and screened many forums. And I can't find a consistent answer to this question. One "camp" says there is a loss of image quality ...

To keep my personal image catalog compact, I am considering scaling down all images that are unsharp for one reason or another, but are interesting or valuable enough not to delete them altogether. I ...

I took this picture:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91552641@N06/15828810701/
and if you look at the details (like the trees on the right side) they are all kinds of muddy. I had the same experience ...

The Lumia 1020 has a 41MP sensor in a PHONE. It down-samples the photo to 5 megapixels, improving the photo quality. But would you get a better photo by using a native 5MP sensor of the same size?
In ...

Recently I am worried about the functionality of my Pentax K-50, i.e. I am not able anymore to get real sharp images. Thus my question arose, what I should see as "sharp". So I took several pictures ...

A group of thieves entered in my house and robbed a lot of my stuff.
They used a car to run away. The following images were obtained from CCV cameras from neighbors. Is it possible to improve those ...

I am struggling to decide between the 5D and the 70D as an upgrade to a 600D. I am an amateur photographer achieving pleasing results with my 600 and I have 5 good lenses. The kit (18-135) is an EF-S ...

my psd file is 9900px by 6600px and I want to export it to jpeg for a website. When I try to export it to jpeg with 72ppi and lower down pixel dimensions to about 1000px by 750px, the image comes out ...

I have a Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 lens that I use as my go to for dark sky imaging with my full frame camera and it is amazing. However, I just bought a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens for my crop sensor camera so ...

What colour space does Lightroom use when you load an Adobe RGB or SRGB tiff/jpeg file into the Develop module? The reason I ask is because I was told that the develop module always uses the ProPhoto ...

Which mode is best fit to take pictures at dusk using a mobile camera,will auto mode work fine or something else.
For your information:
I use a moto-e and Nexus 4 as my camera.
and i use the default ...

I have 2,300+ pictures that I want to transfer to my phone but on their original size they take up a lot of space (6.44gb) I would like to trim is down to without sacrificing quality or resolution. I ...

When reading lens reviews on the Internet, I often find subjective statements about the image quality that a lens produces, such as "good contrast" or "sharp". The problem is that I don't think I am ...

I upload photos to my Facebook page using the latest Lightroom. I'm wondering if there are some tips or tricks, or maybe hidden options on Facebook that makes the images served to the viewers higher ...